A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (FCMA – UK) and Fellow of the Chartered Certied Accountants (FCCA – UK), Mr. De Silva is a Sri Lanka Council Member of the Association of Chartered Certied Accountants (ACCA – UK) as well as Sri Lankan council member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investments ( CISI – UK ) . He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Colombo and Master’s Degrees from Melbourne University (Australia) and Harvard University (USA). He is also an Edward Mason Fellow of Harvard University and served as a Teaching Fellow in Finance at the Harvard Kennedy School.

He currently serves as the Chairman of Sarvodaya Development Finance Ltd. Previously he served as Managing Director of Summit Finance PLC as well as Managing Director of George Steuert Finance PLC. Formerly, he served as a Director of Pan Asia Bank PLC. He also served as Group Managing Director of Delmege Group Limited. He has served the government sector previously as Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Executive Director of the Board of Investments (BOI) Sri Lanka.